Eirmont 7th – Maybe.
Fangcroft, Gnubnaver, Ko’Ar and I have activated the gate using the shard of the control amulet. The amulet fragments seem to have corresponding symbols to the gate itself. This would make sense that if we had all 8 fragments we would have an amulet with all 8 symbols, and thus control over the gate.
For now, it seems to only open to one location outside of the Inn itself. Unfortunately, this side of the gate is not inside the Inn, of any time. It opened in the side of a wall. The wall turned out to be the back of a memorial of some war. We were in some sort of park or garden, and when the gate closed, it was nearly invisible on the wall. just a vague circular indentation around the symbol that was on our amulet fragment.
The Park was beautiful and had a large bronze statue of a man with spectacles on his face. He was smiling and holding up a flat kitchen tool, I believe it is called a spat-you-la. On the base of the statue is engraved the words “Emperor Dave” and below a Quote “Never Cut Corners” I wonder what this is in relation to.
There seems to be some festival or something happening today, and so we followed the crowd. Strangely enough we seemed to all be able to understand the crowd. The people here are all slightly green, like the Pyrathians of the City-ship Denethix. They however dress much more sensibly, like Thyatians or Karameikians.
We asked what was happening of a local and were informed that today was the Feast of 50. Apparently, the local queen, Queen Wendy, has been ruling the land for 50 years today, and to celebrate, a feast has been prepared with festival games and events.
We wandered around the city for a while, eventually ducking out of the crowd into a “Wendy’s Restaurant and Inn“, which turned out to be a great dining hall, which was unfortunately not serving food, as its chefs were all involved in preparing the feast for today.
The young lady inside, Gwen, was polite enough, and when we talked to her about the amulet, she seemed concerned. The Amulet we carried with us contained the Old Seal of Freshtovia, this land. She agreed to help us meet someone who may help, and disappeared for a while.
Eirmont – 7th (?) – Later
Gwen introduced us to a man, in a dark hood. He asked our help in removing a threat called the “Hunger” from the nearby French Fry Forest. I have been emphasizing some words of things and places lately because I wish to remember to look them up in a history book when I return. Or even has De’Ath about them, as he has books on almost everything.
The Dark cloaked man told us that there was an amulet on the Hunger that may be the one we are looking for. He also felt the need to remove the Hunger from the area so as to ensure the safety of the festivities.
It did not take us long to reach this French Fry Forest, which is not like any forest I have ever seen. First the forest walls are sold bush. The trees and bushes stop you like solid walls. The forest seemed more like a Maze made by living, moving plant life. We were at it’s mercy, and pretty much had to follow its directions.
What is this place?
We have had to deal with some of the local wildlife, which looked like animated meat and vegetable sandwiches. These “Pangs” of the Hunger, have no eyes, but were able to sense our location with their stale bready heads. They nipped and bit at us, as we tried to pass.
We had to pass through several doors so far inside this forested maze. The first was a wooden door which opened with the key given to us. The rest have been stone doors with puzzle locks on them.
The first door had 3 turn able dials on it. and the riddle,
“Thrice repeating,
nice for eating,
a meal?
A deal?
A steal for certain.”
Ko’ar answered this with some local lingo he picked up in town. I guess the term “Four for Four” is a way to order food at the “Wendy’s Restaurant and Inn”. I didn’t notice it, but I wasn’t reading the menu like he was.
On the second door was a stone tray with what looked like a frozen drink. On the side of the same tray was a stone spoon, and a carton of fried potato strips.
The inscription read plainly:
“Dip one but, choose wisely.”
When we got to the door, 2 mini ladies appeared before us. They promised to tell us the answer to the riddle, but unfortunately, they admitted that one of them always lies, and we had to figure out which one that was.
In the end we ignored the ladies and relied on Ko’ar’s memory of the Menu at that restaurant. I guess in this land, people dip their fried potatoes in frozen drinks. It seems strange to me, but everything except the moving forest seems to be food based in this land.
The 3rd and last door we came across so far had a small hole in it with the inscription:
“A head have I, and indeed a tail, though a body I doth lack.”
Gnubnaver figured this one out, the door wanted a gold coin. No other coin type seemed to work.
During our forced walk in the forest labrynth, we discovered a broken Metallic triangle, and a box of fried Chicken bits. See what I mean by Food everywhere?
Behind this door was a large campsite and a purple nightmare called a Grumble. After defeating it we all took a rest. While we rested we took out these chicken bits, and when one was removed from the box, it turned into a whole meal of chicken sandwiches. We feasted, and rested before moving forward to face the Hunger, which turned out to be a three-winged beast of human size that tried to eat everything moving in the area.
Upon defeating it, we found the amulet that was mentioned, and when we removed it from the beast, we all were mystically transported to the entrance of the forest.
Eirmont 7th (?) – late afternoon
We returned to witness the queens uplifting speech, before being informed that the queen wished to see us.
We returned her amulet that was on the Hunger. It was not the amulet fragment we searched for. Queen Wendy made a deal with us, one more quest to help, and she would help us find the amulet fragment we needed.
From her description, Freshtovia was nearly at war with another country run by an Ice -Jester (I wish I was making this up). This jester is trying to freeze every food in the world, which is against the Freshtovian way.
Anyways this Jester’s Minions have been causing trouble in Frosty Canyon, where they are blocking, and stealing caravans of special sauce. And all this was reported by a group of warriors from a fort named Fort Bacon-ater.
We agreed to help, because, well because. Ko’ar and Fang felt it was the right thing to do, and I just want to get our amulet fragment and get out of food-land.
Before heading to Wendy’s Restaurant and Inn for the night, Fang, Galladin and Gnubnaver decided to try their luck with some of the games.
Eirmont 8th (?) – late afternoon
The queen offered to let us get equipment at her expense before we left, so we headed to the local Snack smith (I am not making this stuff up I swear.) Here Galladin, purchased a whole suit of armor made of thick, hardened Meat. They called it the “Bacon Armor”, and to top it off, Gnubnaver bought a large kitchen tool that looks like a hollow mace. They call it a Whisk.
I will be happy to get this over with.
Eirmont 9th (?)
We all rested in “Wendy’s Restaurant & Inn” at the queen’s expense last night. This morning, we left town, with a map of the Island. We were instructed to go south to a place called Frosty Canyon.
We left the town of Freshtovia early this morning, and traveled only for about an hour when we came across our first signs of trouble; an overturned cart. The cart had been carrying some sort of food sauce and it still had two horses attached to it. Immediately we suspected a trap. As we came closer, we were attacked by two strange creatures. These creatures each had a large rectangular head held up by two skinny legs with boots on them. The heads had longish crooked noses, tattered pointed ears, like a goblin that had seen a few battles. The hair was the oddest part of this all. Their “Hair” was tall, blond, and rectangular, like some sort of fried vegetable stick. I later learned that these creatures are called “Fry Fiends.”
Yes I am aware that they probably are some sort of food-based things, as everything in this forsaken world seem to be.
These Fry Fiends screeched and leapt at us. The first tried to kick Ko’ar’s chest. Despite their pathetic attacks, which included trying to kick us, and shake some sort of salty dandruff into our eyes, making it hard to see, they were quite difficult to hit, but eventually we got the advantage on them and took them out.
I really hope that these things are not the only thing causing all the ruckus we were asked to investigate. If so, I have lost faith in the military might of this land.
An hour after saving the horses, which we rode, we found the village of Frosty Canyon. I must clarify. Fang, and I rose the horses. Ko’ar has been training and is now nearly as fast as a horse. He seems to be pitting his endurance and speed against them in order to better himself. Galladin turned himself into a bear again, which Gnubnaver rode much to his delight.
The village of Frosty Canyon consisted of a couple cottages, a snack smith, which is what they call a weaponsmith here, and 2 “Ponds” of questionable filling. The village has a larger population of transients than residents, as there is a campsite in the center of the village. One of the lakes is filled with a brown, mud-like liquid, and the other lake is filled with a pure snow-white liquid. Neither lake can be seen through. but some of the transients are fishing there.
This Snack smith apparently specializes in both Gems and Spoons. Which was interesting to see. Gnubnaver decided to “sell” one of our rubies to the snack smith for him to carve into a ruby spoon.
We also managed to meet our contact here, a Prince Carter of Nuggeton. He was a young man, about 18 years in age, with curly brown hair and spectacles on his face. He was flanked by large bald men wearing “Bacon” armor. He claimed to be “lying low”, but with his bodyguards, it was obvious he was a person of import.
The Prince let us know what his men had discovered. That a large caravan of Sauce would be attacked just west of here in the town of Freestyle Falls. Apparently, the ruler of the next kingdom over, the “Ice Jester”, is trying to ruin Freshtovia’s food supply.
I can understand the desire to prevent that.
So, we rode west from town for about an hour, and soon saw fizzing, sparkling falls splashing down into the river that flows through the middle of Frosty Canyon. We saw a caravan of carts that looked similar to the one we found overturned on our journey south from the capital city.
As we got closer to the caravan, we noticed there was no coachman leading the horses. When we were about 50 feet away, the caravan abruptly halted.
Galladin approached first and was met with four of those Fry Fiends from before. We took less time to defeat this bunch as we now knew more about them. Upon defeating the Fry Fiends, we noticed that the cart was full of barrels of sauce. This was clearly the rest of the sauce caravan.
Immediately after a flash of light and smoke appeared. When we turned around we saw a man in a green shroud, with blue ice-flecked hair poking out from under his hood. He is wearing black paint around his eyes, and a large neckerchief that said “Frozen Beef.”
“That’s right, hold your applause. Autograph line is to the right. It’s me, your favorite bad guy, the Beef Bandit!” He cried.
This Beef Bandit was a slap in the face. literally. He bounced around like some sort of acrobat rake, and he slapped me in the face. Then he dodged under Ko’ar’s paws of fury and kicked him in the crotch.
Every time we tried to hit him, he would slide just out of reach and make some loud comment like “You suck!” or “Man your terrible at this!”
If the fry guys were hard to hit, this man was a full on Hamburglar. Every few seconds he was insulting our heritage, or our ability. Finally, after calling Ko’ar “Pussycat” we were able to land a couple hits on him.
It was at this point the bandit leapt on top of the caravan and called “Oh, we’ve had our fun, but now you’re in for a real treat. I hope you’re ready for the toy that comes with your meal, because you won’t be happy to come face-to-face with the Frÿsta!”
He then disappeared in a puff of green smoke and the cart bust open, and he was nowhere to be found. Great flailing icy tentacles burst through the side of the cart as splintered wood scattered across the ground. With a hunched back and still, deep black eyes, a new creature’s face emerged; tentacles swaying from it. The creature’s arms were jagged with frozen crystals, leading to long, sharp fingers. The new beast lets out the guttural roar of a hidden and forgotten language before lunging at us.
While this Frysta was tougher to fight, it was a lot less satisfying to fight. This cursed creature was exactly that, it was something I almost felt sorry for. It was fast, but not limber, and it would throw its ice-covered body at one of us and try to grab us with its tentacles. but it was not smart, and so was not really a match for us in combat.
The poor creature exploded into thousands of airborne ice crystals that floated into the air around us when we hit tour last hit. We heard screaming from the direction of the carts, and a small man emerged, crawling out from behind the cart that the Frÿsta had burst forth from.
He thanked us for saving him and gave us some gold coins from this realm and before he left, he handed Fang a note that the Beef Bandit apparently dropped. It was a tattered letter, scrawled with what appeared to be a warning.
“Continue wasting your time, fools. The ice crystal is charging. You will all be frozen soon.”
What was this Ice Crystal?
We decided it was best to return to the queen and collect our reward, which was information on the Amulet piece.
Eirmont 14th – Djaea’s Day
It has been four days since I returned from the Food land. Since I truly wish to forget the strangeness there, I will not write down more on that place. Today, my wife and I held a short ceremony for all of the sins we have committed over the last year. De’ath laughed at this and spent the day meditating and researching from his books. This Fredigar Crisp was amused but preferred to observe and not engage.
Eirmont 18th
De’ath discovered a secret room in the master study while he was researching Immortals know what. I don’t even want to know how he found it. The room was filled with black windows that had strange writing appearing on them. Connected to these windows were some sort of typing apparatus. I know Adriana and De’ath know more about these things as I have only briefly seen these typing machines, but they usually needed parchment to work…
Eirmont 19th
De’Ath has been watching the giant mirror in the lobby a lot. He has figured out how to focus in on people we have met and see how they are or rather were doing, as I am sure many of these things are time related. Anyways today he claims that the Team finally arrived somewhere, a forest. That means for the last week they did not exist, or… My head hurts. What I am sure of is that the mirror will not show us the future.
My beautiful wife has been spending a lot of time fidgeting with the Oard things. I worry about that, could they be dangerous?
Eirmont 24th – Festival of Charity.
Adriana and I prayed to the Immortal Chardastes Today. It is normally his holy day, in which we would go out and give charity and help our fellow man. However, De’ath would be offended by us helping him, and so that leaves helping Freidigar, who has the Inn so enchanted it does everything for him, and Fulric, who doesn’t currently need assistance with anything we can help with.
So we pray for the immortals to give us charity, and help us stay healthy and sane.
Eirmont 28th – Duke Stephan Karameikos’ Birthday
Another Festival we decided to skip, as right now we are unsure if the Duke was ever born. So we spent time together reminiscing and learning about each other’s cultures. Everyone that is except De’ath, who just listened, mumbled, and made notes. He did not want to share.
Credits
- Freshtovia is the wonderful world of The Feast of Legends released by the Wendy’s fast-food chain,
- The Pang, Grumble, and Hunger pictures are a product of https://nightcafe.studio AI Artist.
- The Beef Bandit is an AI created Image directly from the description in the module. (From the Rise from the Deep Freeze Game Master’s Guide)
- The Frysta is directly pulled from the same module, and the art inside. (I can’t seem to find the Artist’s name, but it is Copywrite Wendy’s)
- Some of the text in this Month is pulled directly from the module Rise from the Deep Freeze, and then edited to the 3rd person Past tense….
- Some art, including the Pendant are made by myself.
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